Is socialism a religion, a form of government, or a state of society?
For some socialists it is all three. For others, it is a form of government leading to a state of society, either abstracting from religion altogether, or definitely hostile to it. 1525. Will you apply these same questions to capitalism? Capitalism is the economic system in which industry, production, distribution, md exchange are controlled by individuals who possess property, and who devote some or all of it to enterprises of commercial value, subject to certain restrictive state legislation. It is not a religion; nor a political form of government, since it can function whether under a monarchy or under a republic. We can call it, however, in economic form of government, and it results in a certain state of society. 1526. Cardinal Gibbons says that your Church can function under any form of government. Is that correct? It can function in any state, whatever its form of civil government, provided of course that the government in question at least leaves the Church to itself, and does
